| Moovit CEO: How Mobility Data Makes Cities Smart Transit infrastructure worldwide has reached a breaking point, and Moovit co-founder and CEO Nir Erez says it will only get worse unless better data about new mobility options can be shared. Erez tells Karen Webster how urban planners are using real-time mobility data to fashion new incentives that moves millions from point A to point B more efficiently, without digging up streets or building new roads. |
| TSYSâ McHugh: Why Integrated Payments Is Whatâs Next Merchant services is newly in TSYSâs sights in the wake of closing its deal to buy Cayan. Philip McHugh, EVP and president of TSYS Merchant Solutions, tells Karen Webster how TSYS plans to integrate the firmâs software integration experience into its platform offerings in a space where you either play big, he says, or go home. |
| ICOs, SEC And Wait And See? The SEC fired a regulatory shot across ICOsâ bows last week, sending out information requests and subpoenas to a slew of firms. The door opens for more oversight, and perhaps a freezing effect on the token sales, even while illuminating a darker corner of the cryptocurrency realm. |
| | Ad-Supported Platforms | | Whoâll Win When Facebook Advertisers Flee? P&Gâs brand chief made news last week when he said that cutting $200M from his digital ad spend in 2017 had no impact on his business. Karen Webster thinks Google/YouTube and Facebookâs losses are now Amazon and Google/Searchâs big wins â since both are in the business of monetizing a consumerâs intent to buy. Think intent, not content, she says â then watch two of 2018âs power brokers create a win-win for the brands looking for a trusted place to meet consumers and do business. |
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